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Show THE PAVSON rilHONirLE. PAYTON. UTAH RED LAMP The t 'l A (Continued.) 19 Q. Dad you known tbat this propwas to come to yon on your erty dont know exactly. three days think. Q. Can you before the About I murder, It was always understood be- A. Very well. Ue snld that he was tween ns. He bad no other belrs. . . . suspicions of the boy; thut be was weak and vicious, and possibly crimiQ. Bad yon any previous acquaintance with Ur. Bethel? I mean, before nal. Ue knew he was going out at he took your bouse? night On the night of the twenty-sixtof Jnly Gordoo was ont and he A. None whatever. 1 never saw him jntU be came out to take possession. dragged himself downstairs. When he Bis secretary Inspected the bousq, beard him at the kitchen door be end negotiations were carried on struck blm. But he maintained tbat be bad not tied him. I believe that, through my attorney. Q. In any of your talks with Ur. personally. He ha-- l one useless hand. Q. Did yon ever have any reason to Bethel, did yon gather that be had known Ur. Horace Porter, previous to believe that Mr.. Bethel exaggerated his Infirmity? Ms death? A. Exaggerated It? What do you A. Never. Q. When yon rented the house, did mean? Q. You believe be was as helpless you retain any keys to It. as he appeared? A. 1 have a full set In my possesA. I can't Imagine a man assuming sion. gut-a thing. . . . Q. You bad access to tbe house, Q. Now. Mr. Iorter, you have said then? A. I never used my keys. If thats that the telephone receiver at the main house was dovn. and you heard wbat you mean. over It enough to alarm you? Q. On the night ol the twenty-slxtA. Yes. 9t July, Ur. Bethel's secretory was atQ. It rang, and you went to It? tacked outside tbe kitchen door of the A. Yes. bouse, and managed to ring the bell Q. How could it ring, it the other before he fell unconscious. Just where were you, Ur. Porter, when that bell receiver was down? A. As a matter of fact, I didn't heqr rang? ' A. Tbe police have my statement as It My wife snld tt had rung, and to satisfy her I went to It . . . to that By tbe Q. Did the secretary. Gordon, ever on road was Doctor the Q Dayward approach you on a matter of money? In bis car; you were by the I don't understand A. Money? the dose to the house. Yet when he question. reached you, you bad apparently only Q. Did he ever urk you for money? found this boy. Is that correct? A. It seems to me that tbe question Or Intimate thut he needed It? A Never. He snld something once there might be, was Hayward on the main road that night, as be says, or about giving up his position. . . . Q. Where was he. the night you held nearer to tire bouse than be admits. the conversation will) Mr. Bethel, relative to him? Q. Yon own a boat, I believe? A. Uere In the city, I believe. A. I inherited one with the propAnd Mr. Bethel thought he might Q A erty. sloop. have gone to the police. Q. Do you sail the boat yourself? A. Thats the second time you have A. 1 don't know one end of it from Intimated that GordoD hud something the other. . . . to tell the police. I can't talk In the Q. In your various conversations wltih Ur. Bethel, did be ever mention dark like this. If anybody wanted to the character of tbe bouse? By that. avoid the police. It was this boy. . . Q. I am going back to the night Ur. I . mean any enriona quality in tbe found you In the house Halilday boose Itself? A. Ue didn't find me. We had startA. Ue recognized such a quality ed there together. Yea Q. Yon say you saw a figure at tbe Q. Did be ever mention a letter written by him to a Ur. Cameron, here foot of the stairs, and fired at It? A. I didnt Intend to fire. In the city? A member of the Society Q. You didnt recognize this figure? for Psychical Research? Relative to A. No. the house? Q. It was not Mr. Bethel? A. Never. But t know of the letA. Bethel? No. He was locked In ter, Cameron sent me word of It a his room. . . . day or so ago. Q. You say you ore not a spiritualQ. Are you a believer In spiritualist? ism! A. Certulnly not A. I never have been. Recently, You have never made any experiQ. I bowever, (Note: Uere 1 caught a warning ments In spiritualism? A. I have been present at one or two glance from Halilday and changed seances. I wbat Intended to say.) Q. When? Recently? Recently I have been trying to preA. We have held two sittings In the serve an open mind on the subject mair house within the Inst few days. Q. Why recently. A. For one thing, Ur. Bethel had Q. When did you first hear of the found tbe bouse queer; so bad tbe symbol of a triangle Inside a circle? A. If you mean !r connection with secretary. . . . Q. On the day you asked the secretbe crimes Q. Before that Yon told Mr. Green tary to luncheon, the Intention was to allow Ur. Bethel to go through bis ough, some time ago, that you heard room? of tt In some other connection. A Bethel? Certainly not A. I told him 1 had happened on It Q. I shall read you this entry from In an old hook on Black Magic, and Gordons diary (reads) : "Porter asked told a group of women about It. It me to lunch today, so B. could go was a purely facetious remark. Q. Can you account for Its use In through my room. They left tbe knife, but at least they know I have It" connection with these crimes? A. Thats a lie I I asked blm to A. I have no official knowledge that luncheon so Ualliday could search bis It was used In connection with the room. It was Halilday who found the crimes. Only with the knife. You can ask blm. Q. But you know It was so used? A. I know that It was used once Q. Well let tbat go, Just now, and come to tbe night you were found In when Mr. Greenough did not find It the house, Ur. Porter, by Ur. Halil-daQ. Where was that? A. On a tree near where the Morrl A 1 wasnt found In the house by son truck was discovered. I have Ur. Halilday. We had started for It heard It was on Carrownys boat but together. Tbe maid, Annie Cochran, 1 don't know that I know it was debad reported a quarrel between Mr. liberately put on my car, after Mr. Bethel and Gordon, and that Gordon Halilday was hurt had gone away. You must remember Q. You say, put op .Sj car? Do you that we suspected the boy of being the mean by that, Mr. bethel did It? How could be? A. Bethel? killer. I was anxious, and went for We have thought lately that Gordon was Halilday. Q. What time did the maid tell you responsible. We found a piece of his this? cipher nearby. A. About seven thirty, possibly eight Q. You have felt all along that Gor-dowas guilty? o'clock. I would say A. I wont say tbat Q. And when did you go for Ur. that the burden of the evidence indiHalilday? cated that he was guilty. Mr. Ualli-d.iA It was about eleven, I Jntuglne. has bad considerable doubt of his Q. What did you do In the Interval? A She was nervous, and I took her gutIL home. Aftetr tbat we had callers. Q. Have you ever considered that It Q. Did you see Mr. Bethel, In tbat might be Bethel who killed Gordon? Interval? A. Never. Ue couldnt have dope it A No. Q. But If he had had assistance? A. Are you telling me that Bethel Q. Had It occurred to you that Gordon might be going to see the police? did kill Gordon? A. 1 never thought of It. Why Q. I am telling you that somebody should he be going to the police? killed Gordot, Mr. Iorter. His body was washed ashore at Bass cove this Q. Did Mr. Bethel think jt It? A I've told you; 1 didn't see him. morning. Q. On the night of the murder In September 7. the house at Twin Hollows, what led Ualliday has saved me from arrest, you to your discovery of the crime? by giving to the police the Information A My wife heard the telephone which he has been gathering on the case all summer. Has made a quiet ring, and I went to It AH three buildings are on one tine, and tbe receiver gesture, which Is like him, and given at the main house was down. I heard me back to life, liberty and the pursuit a crash, and heavy breathing near the of literature He came out late last night, and I telephone. Q. Tbat made you suspicious? understand Is still asleep. He has had A' I bod been expecting trouble be- very little sleep, poor lad, for a long tween Mr. Bethel and Gordon. time. I myself collapsed this morning, and Q. Why did you expect trouble? A. I knew they had quarreled. Ur Hayward has put me back to bed. Bethel had told tie that It was be who Edith, spreading my coverings neatly had struck Gordon, mistaking him for before Greennugh came up, says 1 am now so thin that: a burglar, and tbat Gordon suspected It. "Ton really make a hollow, William. When did he toil you tbat? If k were not for your feet, nobody b sun-dla- Dy NARY ROBERTS RINEHART Copyright by Coo. H. Done WNV Sorvko Coapuy remember the burden of that conversation? odes death? A. I would know you are there I . . . It Is Impossible to record tn detail my conversation tills afternoon with Greenough, covering as It did more than an boar. Ue came In, I thought, slightly uncomfortable and perhaps a little crestfallen, and 1 motioned him to a chair. He sat down and mopped bis face with bis handkerchief, and after that stooped and rather deliberately wiped his shoes with It Then tie struigl tened anl looked at me. "Well, professor," he saldl lta a darned queer world, theres no denying It." The world's all right. Its the people who mess things up." Like fleas on a dog," was his rathei He felt In bis abstracted comment. pocket with curt) the same gesture us on that early visit of his when he had drawn the triangle within tbe circle on the back ct an old ervelope. Whether the movement was reminiscent to him, as It was to me, I cannot say. But he glanced at me quickly and then smiled. "Sort of had me going, you did. there ior a while! he said. But I was getting pretty close to the facts before l. sun-dla- l, here! . sheep-killing- u Briefly, then, the deciphering of the diary bad left me in a very bad position. When they had finished It, It was Bencbleys Idea to arrest me at once. They bad the boys body, a fact they bad kept to themselves, and I was within an ace of a charge of murder. But Halilday bad stayed. He seemed to feel there was trouble Be bung coming, Greenongb said. aroupd and drove os all crazy. He Insisted. as hed brought the key, on his right to read the stuff as H came through; and as It went on, he didn't know exactly what to do. Finally, seeing what was In the air, he made a trade with us. He was willing to have yoa brought In and Interrogated, but on condition tbat if yon weren't held hed come over with something of his own. Yon get the point, of course. Theres a reward Involved. and hed been bolding out on us a bit" He waved his hand. Thats natural. We don't hold It against him But the point Is, he made bis trade." Coming to my examination, my Hn swers had apparently Impressed HemOn the other ingway satisfactorily. hand, added to the diarys constant suspicion of me. was Greenoughs own case against me. He passed over that rather airily. I wasnt trying to make out a case As a matter against you," be said. of fact, you couldnt have been the You man who attacked Holliday. werent here. Naturally," I agreed, gravely. 1 wasn't here. Of course. If I had been Oared Bethel to Discharge Him. this diary came along. Of course, It helped. He had Gordon's diary In bis hand. he said, fingering the Naturally, book, your young friend's Inforuia tion was valuable; Im not discount on the win tng that. The hand-prin- t I'd have dow board, for Instance. found it sooner or later, but It saved time. And the young lady, too. Sites done her bit. all right I've been han dlcapped by being too well known around here. And Starrs a fool." He snapped out Ills last Statement and I gathered that he was still smart Ing under the knowledge that, wlthont Halilday and Edith, he would still be nowhere. It was. more or less, his defense. Of course," he said, "ever since we got hold of this diary of Gordons, one Bethel things been pretty dear. wasn't working aloue. According to what I saw of him I wiisn possible. He couldn't even have made a getaway without help. The only question was, whod helped him." So you picked on me? Well," he snld wryly, you'll have to admit that you've seemed to go out of your way all summer to get Into trouble! As a matter of fact I didnt He tiick on you; It was Gordon. looked at my clock. I've only got an hour, he said. Your niece Is sitting on the stairs on me. I now, bolding a cant read you this thing, hut I can tell you what's In it And believe me, that's plenty." . stop-watc- h .... He glanced at me quickly, but went back to the night of the Inquiry. The question was, whether to hold you or not Yon may remember Hemingway going out, when It was over, and talking to Halilday outside? Well. It was then he made the trade. Apparently the. fact that Gordon had been the victim had not been the surprise to the police that It had been to me. For one thing, the microscope had shown one detail which the detective had not mentioned to me at the time. Caught between the handle of the knife and the blade had been a short piece of hair. The microscope showed tills hair not only young, a matter read.ly determined, and the approximate color of Gordons; It also showed It liberally coated with poPoor Gordon's glistening, varmade. ' nished hair I Rut Greenough had been Inclined at first to ttiink that there had been two victims, lustead of one. Dying and passing on, he says. Is not like taking your thumb out of a bowl of soup. It's bound to leave some sort of a hole." And there had been no hole. It Bethel had died and passed on, n- - one apparently missed him. As time went on and no queries were received the thing began to look oinlnnns: as though Bethel himself had been hiding away, under an assumed name. The Idea that Bethel had had an enemy from whom he was hiding, and who had found him. began to Intrude lndo-Chin- mus. Not so tall as their African cousins, but very nearly as big, they differ from the latter by a good number of points, "F. J." says, writing In the Atlantic Monthly. Their ears ore much smaller and differently shaped. Their trunk Is absolutely flexible and not made ot numerous segments, hut rather like a big rubber tube with only one tingerllke proboscis at the tip Their back Is convex from the shoulders to the root of the tall and their forehead Is slightly concave. Also the brain capacity Is1 lurger than In the African species, thus making the head shot far more deadly. An Asiatic elephant charging Is easil.v stopped with a bullet In the forehead. To my mind, the elephant deserves the name of King of Beasts more than does the lion or the tiger. Lie fears only man, and that not always. He Is the unchallenged master of the Jungle and, coufldent In his enormous strength, leads among Its denizens a from some "And B.s afraid of that Betbel and I have bad a quarrel, and that one of us bas tried to shoot tbe other 1 But his knife bas been taken ; be steals one from tbe kitchen and carefully sharpens It; but be Is not so frightened as be bas been. Bethel and I have quarreled, and be can handle tbe old man." But. matters were rapidly approaching a climax. Betbel was going to give up tbe house and let blm go. He seems to have dared Betbel to discharge him and to have more than hinted at wbat be suspects. 1 can talk for ten thousand," be writes, or keep qufet for twenty. He can take bis choice." He bas the upper hand, now. Tbe other man Is no longer In evidence; they have apparently quarreled, and Bethel Is left to bear tbe situation alone. The boy lays various traps, but no one enters tbe bouse. Tbe murder pact is broken, and the old man sits la hts chair and broods. "Blackmail is an ugly word, be says once. Not half so ngly as murder," retorts Gordon, and notes it wltb satisfaction his diary. Murder" was the last word he wrote there. . . . But, for all bis apparent frankness, Greenougbs errand was clearly only to relieve my anxieties concerning myself. He refused all further Information. We have a suspect, all right," be said. 1 dont mind saying that But we havent a case yet, and Its touch and go whether we get one. Until we do. were not talking. September 8. Holliday's attitude Is very curious. He Is taciturn in the extreme; be avoids any confidential talks with me, and Jane commented on It this mornIn , WHAT DR. CALDWELL LEARNED IN 47 YEARS PRACTICE i A physician watched tbe results ot constipation for 47 years, and believed that no matter how careful people are of their health, diet and exercise, constipation will occur from time to time. Of next importance, then, is bow to treat it when it cornea. Dr. Oaldwell always was in favor of getting aa cloee to nature as possible, hence bit remedy for consti- known as Dr. Caldwell's Syrup ?ttion, is a mild vegetable compound. It can not barm tbe system and is not, habit forming. Syrup Pepsin is pleasant-taatingand youngsters love it. Dr. Caldwell did not approve of drastic physios and purges. 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Nothing Is so dramatic In all the diary as the situation unconsciously revealed between the paralytic and the boy; each watching the other, tbe guard up between them, while tbe servant Is In the room, and then down again. Tbe boy recklessly mocking, tbe old man grim and waiting. And nothing said. The boy goes to tbe city and tries to buy a revolver, but tbere Is a new law In effect, and he falls. He bas tbe knife, and has to trust to that He thinks of going to the police while bo Is In tbe city; the reward would be a big thing. He says: 1 could go around the wqrld on ten thousand." But his case Isn't complete; be needs the outside man. He suspects me, but be hasn't tbe pecting But," he said, with engaging trunk-uess- , "that eliminated you. And you wouldn't he eliminated. You were like some people youve seen, when theres a camera man about; always getting In front of the machine and Into the picture." Then came the diary, and Gordon brought me tn unmistakably, and in a Not way they bad not thought of. an enemy, but an accomplice; Bethel biding there, with my connivance, and tbe two of as, be the brains presumably and 1 tbe bands, working out between ns some sinister design which even tbe boy could nor understand. Whatever it Is," Gordon had writ ten, shortly after the Morrison girls disappearance, hes got outside help." And be wonders If 1 am guilty. But be la not sure of that; he even suspects Bethel, In one entry, of being less helpless than he appeared, and possibly of working on bts own. Ue .'(0-4- me. And source. He tells Betbel be bas seen a figure go into the den at night, and Bethel shows alarm. Ue and the other one have quar- Itselt The bureau of standards says that the lacquer on sterling silver, when It Is wearing off, should be removed by a solveut, such as a lacquer thin ner or butyl acetate. 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It Is about this time, too, tbat be begins to believe that Bethel is not only watching him, but that be Is ex- Elephant Supreme in Rulership of Jungle Elephants are found nearly every a where In except lb Tonk-ing- . to the Indian similar are They elephants, and although they have been divided Into several subspecies on very slender ground, they all be long to the same race: Elephns maxi abandoned that Idea, however, and there was a time when be suspected Thomas; even a time when bethought of bringing bis suspicions to me. But Bethel was beginning to be afraid of blm. He thinks Bethel knows be has discovered tbe boat. He grows alarmed, and buys a knife; be records that be can take care of himself." But tbere la bravado In tt Later oo, be finds tbat be la occasionally stealthily locked in at night, for three or four boors, and be boya a rope and bides It in bis room. After tbat mattesa moved rapidly. He found tbe window unlocked on certain nights, and set a watcb on It. 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